12 First Annual Report 
In all of this work there has been no idea of aping the university 
to the slightest degree. Many years of experience as student and 
teacher in a number of colleges and universities, have convinced me 
that the American college has a destiny uniquely its own. I believe 
that there are greater possibilities in the Christian college for the 
building of individual character, and for laying the broadest and 
soundest foundations for true culture and great scholarship, than 
anywhere else on earth. Just so, I also believe that tremendous 
Showing the tide pools at Mussel Point. Here are immense colonies of mussels, 
barnacles, sea urchins and coralline algae. This place is exceedingly rich collecting 
ground. 
ideals of really adequate and sane high school work can easily be 
built up without overlapping the college in any way, and I came to 
this belief while associated in practical high school work with two 
masters of that subjeet—Prof. Bryan, now Assistant Superintendent 
of the St. Louis schools, and Miss Ernst, now Principal of the Cote 
srilliante Sehool in St. Louis. 
Our work in Pomona College, and all connected with it, has been 
developed along strictly college lines, with all of the intimate indi- 
vidual interest and assistance, and all of the varied and endless saeri- 
